Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first month I was there I was kind of uncomfortable about my Spanish. I was really more of a tourist, but by the second month I got actively involved," Adams says. He was in Peru during one of the worst rainy seasons the country had ever experienced, but despite the weather he managed to travel throughout most of the country...
...hours west of Hanoi, the dirt road begins to climb into jungle-covered mountains whose jagged, rocky peaks reach effortlessly into the clouds. The Soviet-built tourist bus, careering around hairpin turns and over steep grades, is shaken down to its ineffectual shock absorbers. At midday, a convoy of Vietnamese troops rumbles by in World War II-type trucks, red flags snapping in the breeze. They are headed for duty in Laos, where about 50,000 Vietnamese troops are supporting the Pathet Lao regime and guarding the Chinese border...
...Having been a tourist myself, I can testify to how nice it is to have a place to get information about a new city," David Sullivan said...
...before it had set formal regulations for ocean incineration. The agency's pace led to protests. At open hearings in Brownsville last November, more than 6,000 demonstrators, including Texas Governor Mark White, confronted EPA officials. They argued that a spill at sea could destroy the shrimp and tourist industries on the south Texas coast. When the EPA answered that this eventuality was remote, White commented, "No one believed the Titanic could sink either...
...finally allowed to leave the country, but only after presenting a letter from the government's tourist division introducing him as a Let's Go researcher...